JEFFERSON CITY schools will charge $700-a-year tuition for all new out-of-district students entering or transferring to Jefferson Middle School next year.

Jefferson Middle School has exceeded “base-size” and is expected to stay above base-size 2011-2012. Since it is already school system policy to charge tuition when a campus surpasses this mark, this measure requires no vote from the school board.

“Everybody just needs to know what this will involve,” said superintendent John Jackson, who notified the school board Thursday about the matter.

I am so sick of Jefferson thinking that they are better than anyone else!! Please!!! People really need to look closely at this school system. They are not all they think they are! Kids are not treated right unless they are top notch students. The teachers play favorites. Heaven forbid, if you are special ed.---you can forget it!! They don't care if you can't bring in the scores!!!

I am aware of some of this and I understand where you are coming from.
However, the other choices we have, school wise, are equally flawed.
The newspaper today talks about some of those flaws.
I am thankfully seeing some improvement in the areas you mention.

doubt that $700 really covers the cost of these extra students. should be charged actual cost. I pay a hefty school tax even though I have never had a child in this system. outsiders should at least pay their way !!

Let's pay $700 dollars for our child to attend this school to get bullied. What an investment. The school should be paying to the battered students, and to the families of those who have lost loved ones due to the tolerance level of violence.

I've been told that people who live in the city limits of commerce are not allowed to send their kids to East Jackson. Some people were "grandfathered" in, but people who try it now are told they can't attend East Jackson. Some families have had their kids split into two different systems because of this.

I am tired of having freeloading “non-Jeffersonians” sending their kids to any Jefferson City Schools. I chose to live within the city limits and knew that my taxes would be higher due to that choice. I am amazed to see how many cars that have Clarke, Hall, even Gwinnett country tags dropping off their kids in the morning. That tells me a few things. One, you have illegally registered your car and evading Jackson country taxes. Two, you do not live in within the city limits and are having your kids attend Jefferson City schools illegally; once again, tax evasion. Forget the “Grandfather clause, it has been years since Jefferson had their major expansion; that clause needs to be abolished. If you do not like the school system where you live, move within the city limits. Don’t use Grandpa’s address for your school registration or sit outside a foreclosed home to pick up your kids when the school bus drops them off and drive to your home that is in another county. Get involved with the school and force change!

It's not illegal for out of district students to attend another system if that system permits that and is aware of it. It is illegal to give a bogus address to a school for attendance purposes. Every school system has its own policy on this. The Jackson County School System, for example, doesn't take out of district students. Jefferson does with certain limitations. Some of that is not just a legal issue, but more of a tradition that goes back over 50 years when the local school systems were all tied together by contracts and court orders. It's complicated and isn't as black and white as it may first appear. I would suggest that if you know someone has given a bogus address to any school system, you let the school know that information.

Tradition? Weak excuse Mike, your more articulate than that my friend. I know of a lot of traditions that were going on 50 years ago that are gone now and this one needs to go too. It comes down to getting what we pay for. I feel that is about numbers of kids on the roster for subsidies. In Jefferson, we pay higher taxes for the services we get. For someone who lives outside of city limits pay less and gets the same services is unethical at the least. If they want their kids to go to Jefferson schools, they need to pay at the level they would if they sent their kids to a private school. I'm tired of paying high taxes on depreciated valued homes for freeloaders.

I am a mom of a JMS student. There is some bulling that does go on in our schools but it does not go as far as some one taking their life. We have good leaders in our system and they try to bite these things in the bud as soon as a child reports it. If you are having a problem keep records and keep intouch with your child's school. Keep yeling until they listen if you have too. We have a good school system. Not everyone likes it but they don't have to stay. Yes the system is growing and there are or might be some probles here and there, but you have a voice and the schools will listen if you stop just writting on this site and take it to the system. They don't know if you don't inform them. Now, the middle school traffic in the pm is very unbearable. Too many parents that pick their children in the back of the school and too many children just running and walking without looking. The bus drivers have their hands full without the car riders getting in the way. Some child is going to get hurt if something isn't done. But JCS is a great school system and I wouldn't want him/her to go anywhere else. My child is an adverage child, no sports or high grades and no spec. ed. just adverage. My child enjoys the school system. Thank JCS!

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